Poster of Cast and Crew in American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 8 - The Living Weapon

American Experience - Season 19 - The Living Weapon (Episode 8)

Plot: "The Living Weapon" explores the history of America's biological-weapons program, which began in 1942 with a group that worked parallel to the Manhattan Project, and continued to 1969, when President Nixon terminated it. Included: comments from Bill Patrick, the program's chief of product development; bioweapons historian Norman Covert; biowarfare expert Martin Furmanski; historian Brian Balmer; Jeanne Guillemin, senior adviser to MIT's Security Studies Program
Episode Aired On:
Monday, February 5 2007
18 years ago